Official notice: audits for LCEF, LCMS Foundation (December 2012)

The audits and summary budgets of the Lutheran Church Extension Fund and The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod Foundation have been completed and are available upon written request. Please direct your request to: Lutheran Church Extension Fund Sunset Corporate Center 10733 Sunset Office Drive St.…

Official notice: CPH audit (December 2012)

The audit of the Concordia Publishing House has been completed and is available by contacting directly: Concordia Publishing House3558 South Jefferson AvenueSt. Louis, MO 63118-3968(314) 268-1000 Posted Nov. 19, 2012 Return to Top

Positions (December 2012)

The LCMS Office of National Mission, St. Louis, seeks a manager, Disaster Response. The candidate must be a member in good standing of an LCMS congregation and have training in theology from a Concordia University System school or an LCMS…

Official notice: LCMS district audits (December 2012)

The audits and summary budgets of the Synod’s 35 districts have been completed and are available upon written request. Write or contact your district office directly. The address of each district is published in The Lutheran Annual. Posted Nov. 19,…

Official notice: Concordia University, Nebraska, accreditation (December 2012)

The College of Education at Concordia University, Nebraska, Seward, Neb., is hosting an accreditation visit by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) April 14-16, 2013. Interested parties are invited to submit third-party comments to the visiting team.…

Synod responds to suffering from 'overshadowed' quake in Guatemala

By Kim Plummer Krull While traveling to New Jersey to help with Superstorm Sandy relief, the Rev. Carlos Hernandez, director of Church and Community Development with the LCMS Office of National Mission, got a call from a Guatemalan pastor about…

Convention vote reunites Philippine partner church

The Lutheran Church in the Philippines (LCP) — a partner church with the LCMS — is reunited, after being separated into two distinct factions for more than two decades. Reunification came Oct. 26 in a vote of delegates from both…

Resources available for 2013 'Life Sunday'

LCMS Life Ministries and Lutherans For Life (LFL) are both offering resources designed to help congregations observe “Life Sunday” on Jan. 20, 2013. The observance marks the 40th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Jan. 22, 1973, decision that legalized…

Lutherans invited to join Jan. 25 'March for Life'

Lutherans are invited to mark the 40th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion by participating in the national “March for Life” on Friday, Jan. 25, in Washington, D.C.  Since that decision in…

LHM announces 2013 outreach conferences

Lutheran Hour Ministries (LHM) is planning eight Regional Outreach Conferences for 2013. The conferences are designed to inspire, energize and equip attendees to share God’s love, nurture their families and witness to the community. Through presentations, hands-on witnessing opportunities and…

Freitag to receive Silver St. Martin of Tours Medal

Merle Freitag of Wildwood, Mo., former president of the Lutheran Church Extension Fund (LCEF), has been selected to receive the Silver St. Martin of Tours Medal from the LCMS Ministry to the Armed Forces Committee and the Office of International…

Church leaders say returning vets need time, attention

(RNS) — When Staff Sgt. Brandon Hill came home from his third tour in Iraq last year, he expected his wife and young daughters at the welcoming ceremony. What he didn’t expect were the pastors, secretaries and members of their…

Helping Sandy survivors with 'long, long' recovery

By Kim Plummer Krull No congregations of The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod are located in the Rockaways, but that was no detour for LCMS members who volunteered in those Long Island, N.Y., communities on Monday (Nov. 12), grilling and delivering hot food…

New Archbishop of Canterbury inherits a divided Anglican Communion

By Trevor Grundy CANTERBURY, England (RNS) — Bishop Justin Welby, a former oil executive who’s emerged as a critic of corporate excess, was named Nov. 9 as the 105th archbishop of Canterbury, primate of the Church of England and leader…

Grimenstein is director, Missionary Services

The Rev. Dr. Edward O. Grimenstein was installed as director, Missionary Services, for the LCMS Office of International Mission (OIM) during a Nov. 8 Matins service at the Synod’s International Center in St. Louis.   OIM Executive Director Rev. Randall L.…

Churches band together to meet needs after Sandy

By Paula Schlueter Ross “It’s not about us,” says Tracey Stillman, whose congregation, Village Lutheran Church in Lanoka Harbor, N.J., has been caught up in disaster-response efforts as a result of Superstorm Sandy. That congregation has been providing hundreds of free meals;…